Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

"Andrea Pappacoda" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:18:47 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

On Thu Jul 23, 2026 at 8:21 AM -03, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-07-22 at 21:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> 4. **Explicit Disclosure:** When a significant portion of the 
>>    contribution is taken from a tool without manual modification, 
>>    contributors should    disclose the tool's use. This may be 
>>    recorded using Git trailers, such as `Generated-By:` or 
>>    `Assisted-By:`.
> [...]
>> 6. **Community Courtesy:** To respect the preferences of project 
>>    members who wish to avoid AI-generated content, contributors 
>>    should clearly label such content in mailing list and bug 
>>    discussions (e.g., by identifying such content with a clear 
>>    disclaimer or a machine-readable tag like `[AI-Generated]`).
>
> Given what happened with rsync recently, I would suggest not including 
> such requirements.

As people find LLM-generated code problematic, I don't think we should 
hide that problem.

Bye!